Historic Faust Hotel and brewpub change ownership

The historic Faust Hotel in New Braunfels has been sold. Perhaps more importantly, so has the accompanying brewpub.

And according to Travis Poling, local beer author, blogger and connoisseur, new owners Vance and Priscilla Hinton “plan to make the brewpub a bigger beer destination and revive a full-service restaurant that has been absent for more than a decade.”

Vance Hinton is a manufacturing executive in Katy and Priscilla Hinton owns the Kork wine bar in downtown New Braunfels.

The hotel, built in 1929, is valued at $1.1 million, according to the Comal Appraisal District. It has been owned for about two decades by Robert and Judith Abbey of San Antonio.